In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

If your past is limited, your future is boundless.

There is nothing left to do but get drunk.

It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can unite in a common objective and sustain common principles.

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

White? That's good. virginal. He'll be reminded this is a first for you and hopefully won't just impale you on his pork sword.

Where the signposts end, the trail begins.

If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

Understand your man, meditate on it.

Getting or giving anything is about social skills. The world is about being comfortable where you are and making people comfortable, and that's what social skills are

Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.

There's a danger zone if you take yourself too seriously. It's a terrible trap to fall into. I think it's the death of comedy.

I couldn't believe Sam actually got me a present because i honestly thought the "I love you" was it.